The Breakfast Club - July 31, 2010

From a fellow BCer (even some libs will see the humor in this...well, if they actually try):

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Online headline: "Al Gore Cleared by Portland Area DA of Masseuse's Sexual Misconduct Claims" -- Hmmm, Algore, the man with a 100% 'woody' personality, has been cleared of charges. Hmmm, when you think about it, can anyone even picture Algore being sexual?
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Online headline: "Sluggish Economy May Be Bad News for Democrats" -- DOH! It has been for all of us who work hard, so why shouldn't it be for DIM/DUMBorats?
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Online headline/story: "Administration Buys $700,000 TV Ad Touting Health Care Law * The $700,000 ad was paid for by Medicare and is part of an open enrollment campaign that will continue through the end of the year. Medicare says the goal is to educate seniors about new benefits available starting in 2011." -- Excuse me! Didn't I recall that HELL-thSCare plans a $500 BILLION dollar cutback in Medicare? It takes more than "new math" to get this to add up.
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Online headline/story: "Sen. Ben Nelson Is First Democrat to Oppose Kagan for Supreme Court * "I have heard concerns from Nebraskans regarding Ms. Kagan, and her lack of a judicial record makes it difficult for me to discount the concerns raised by Nebraskans, or to reach a level of comfort that these concerns are unfounded," Nelson said in a statement." -- Now he listens! Guess if HELL_thScare had been done closer to election time, he'd have 'heard' his constituency then, too.
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L-E headline: "Repairs on Macon Road bridge to take longer than expected" -- DOH! It's the government; is anybody actually surprised?
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I was listening to a teacher challenge NJ governor Chris Christie about his plea to freeze teacher salaries for a year and require them to pay 1.5% of their salaries towards their health care. One teacher went ballistic saying she wanted compensation for her educational degrees. Unreal! What is the value of an advanced teaching degree if they are not taught the simple facts of how the economy works, and that when less taxes are being collected, there are fewer tax dollars from which to spend on teachers? Why is government the fastest to spend revenues when they are in abundance, and the last to tone down spending when the economy slows?
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Online story: "KABUL, Afghanistan (July 29) -- A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday." -- Wow! Makes our waterboarding and cable-tv at Camp Gitmo seem sort of insignificant, doesn't it? Well, maybe not to liberals who think the Navy men deserved it.
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L-E's "Thought for Today": “The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.” — E.V. Lucas, English author and critic (1868-1938). " -- Hmmm... one only has to go back a few years to find great examples of this... the Clinton marriage, the Algore marriage and Global Warming, and the potUS Nero-bama transparency.
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L-E headline: "REALLY ? N.M. considers controversial pardon for infamous outlaw Billy the Kid " -- Hmm.. My great-grandmother's brother, John Lee Hurst, hung out with Billy the Kid. I remember when I found this out and excitedly went to my pubescent nephews to tell them the exciting news. All the response I got was, "Billy the who?" Such were the thoughts of a generation that teethed itself on "Star Wars" versus 'western oaters'.
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Actor Don Murray is 81 today. All I really know about him was that he was brought into the Southern Open as a 'celebrity' for the Pro-Am, and that he was paired with my Dad's team. After an obviously late night, he showed up at the #1 tee at GICC 2 minutes before his starting time wearing a white oxford clothe, french cuffed shirt, blue seer-sucker suit pants, white bucks, and a grim look of a severe hangover. He asked everyone to 'whisper' if they had to yell "FORE".
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L-E "soundoff": " If we had re-elected Jimmy Carter, this country would not be in the big mess it’s in today. " -- Probably true. Today's mess would seem inconsequential in comparison to forecasting the state we would be in if he had been re-elected. Besides, he'd probably have given it away to some other country like he did the Panama Canal.
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From the 'nothing good happens after midnight' department - L-E story: " A Columbus woman was shot at a local club, according to a police report. * The incident occurred at the Carousel Lounge on Victory Drive at around 2:30 a.m. Friday, Columbus police said." -- Is anyone keeping score of the number of shootings and other assaults that occur in the parking lot of the Carousel Lounge?
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L-E story: "MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court overturned a Macon County circuit judge’s order and cleared the way Friday for Gov. Bob Riley’s task force on gambling to raid Victoryland, the state’s largest electronic bingo casino." -- Why didn't the paper just publish when the raid was going to happen, too?
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L-E's "QUOTABLE": “Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.” Carl Schurz German revolutionary (1829-1906) " -- Quite simplistic and enlightening. Unfortunately, we have a generation that has been led to believe the 'stars' they chart their course by are the ones in Hollywood.
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L-E headline: "Outlook dims for economy as growth slows * GDP grew at 2.4% during first quarter" -- And, if you calculate the tax increases if Congress lets the "Bush Tax Cuts" end, this number will be negative in 12 months.
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L-E headline/story: "Chrysler to add 900 jobs to midsize-car plant * The automaker made the announcement at another Detroit-area plant just before President Barack Obama spoke there about the success of the government-funded auto industry bailout." -- Isn't it amazing how the only industry growth potUS Nero-bama can brag about is the government owned ones? Probably just another case of cooking the books as usual for this administration. Of course, he doesn't want to talk about the average (this year) of more than 460,000 people a week filing for 'first time' unemployment. What that means is there have been an average of over 460,000 jobs lost per week this year; that's nearly 12,000,000 people who have filed for 'first time' unemployment benefits in 6 months, and Congress has just extended the unemployment benefits from 99 weeks to 126 weeks...that's well over 2 YEARS!
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